Cigarette-paper-holding attachment for tobacco-boxes



B. A. ROSE.

CIGARETTE PAPER HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR TOBACCO BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1914.

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BERTRAM A. ROSE, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

CIGARETTE-PAPER-HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR TOBACCO-BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Application filed June 18, 1914. Serial No. 845,897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, BERTRAM A. BOSE, citizen of the United States, residing at Fort 01th, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette- Paper-Holding Attachments for Tobacco- Boxes, of which the following is a specificatlon.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in cigarette paper holding attachments for tobacco boxes, and has as its primary object to provide a con venient manner of supporting the cigarette paper upon the box in. a position where it will be readily accessible for use.

The invention has as a further object to provide a device of this character wherein a roll of cigarette paper is employed, which roll is formed from a continuous strip and is supported inv such position upon the box, that a portion of the strip may be cut off upon the adjacent edge of the box to form a single cigarette paper.

A further object of the invention is to provide a spool for the .roll of cigarette paper which may be readily attached to or detached from the box and to also provide a container or tube for surplus rolls of paper in order that an excess roll may be carried about with the person, and if desired, may be positioned within the box so that the paper may be used directly from the tube.

With these and other objects in view, my invention will be more fully described illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and then specifically pointed out in the claims which are attached to and form a part of this application.

In the drawings: Figure l is a perspective view, showing my improved cigarette paper holding attachment in position within the lid ofatobacco box, the tobacco box being conventionally shown, Fig. 2 is a sectional View showing a tobacco box partly broken away and illustrating the disposition of the cigarette paper holding attachment within the box when the lid thereof is closed, Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view showing the lid of the box detached. and illustrating the manner in which the cigarette paper holding attachment is attached to the lid, Fig. l is a detached detail perspective View showing the brackets which carry the spool as well as the spool, in proper relative position thereto, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the tube provided for carrying a surplus roll of cigarette paper, Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional View showing a modified form of tube, Fig. 7 is a fragmentary perspective View showing a modified form of the invention wherein the lid of the tobacco box is slotted to permit the withdrawal of the cigarette paper therefrom, and Fig. 8 is a plan view of a further modified form of the invention showing the lid of the box detached.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

My improved cigarette paper holding attachment may be attached to almost any form of tobacco box as now upon the market and in the drawings, I have conventionally shown such a box wherein the numeral 10 indicates the body portion thereof to which is hingedly secured the cap or cover 11, which is provided with the usual flange 12 at its outer edge, adapted to embrace the upper extremities of the walls of the body portion 10 of the box.

loming now more particularly to the subject of the present invention, I arrange within the cover 11, in spaced relation, suitable brackets 13, said brackets being oppositely disposed and preferably positioned midway the side edges of the cover. The brackets 13 are preferably formed of suit able resilient material or if desired, may be formed of tin of the character similar to that employed in constructing the cover 11 and each of said brackets includes the angularly disposed arms ll and 15, the arm 14 of each of said brackets being secured to the inner face of the cover 11 in any suitable manner, such as by solder. It will be noted that the arms 15 of said brackets extend at substantially right angles to the adjacent face of the cover 11 and when said cover is swung to close the body portion of the box, the said arms will project interiorly of the box as best shown in Fig. 9. of the drawings. The arms 15 of said brackets are each provided with a suitable aperture 16 adjacent the outer extremity thereof, and detachably supported by said brackets is a spool. 17, the body portion of which is preferably round as shown, and provided with suitable gudgeons which are receivable within the apertures 16 of the brackets to rotate freely therein. By this construction, it will be observed that the brackets 13 may be readily attached to any conventional type of tobacco box without the necessity of structural change therein, and that the spool 17 may be readily attached to or detached from the brackets. Vi here the brackets are formed of resilient material, the arms 1.5 thereof may be sprung away from each other to thus permit the insertion .or removal of said spool, but in an instance where said brackets are formed of tin or other similar metal, it will be quite obvious that said arms may be readily bent to effect a similar result.

{Vound upon the spool 17 is a continuous strip of cigarette paper designated 19, and said strip may be provided with longi tudinally spaced series of transversely extending apertures 20, if desired, to facilitate the tearing of the strip into proper widths, to form the cigarette papers, such series of apertures being arranged in spaced relation to each other equal to the width of a conventional cigarette paper. However, if preferred, the strip of cigarette paper 19 may be put upon the market without the apertures 20, and, in such instance, a single cigarette paper may be readily torn from the strip by pulling the adjacent end of the strip across the contiguous outer side portion of the flange 12 of the lid of the box, and, as will be readily understood, the strip may be then readily severed upon the free edge of the flange. Of course, where the strip 19 is provided with the apertures 20 this same manner of detaching a single cigarette paper may be followed, but the provision of such apertures is intended to make it unnecessary.

With a view to providing a means whereby surplus rolls of cigarette papers may be carried upon the person, I employ a container therefor, which is particularly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings. Said container includes the telescopic tubular sections 21 and 22, having their inner ends open and their outer ends closed, the section 21, which may be designated the body portion of the container, being reduced as shown at 23 adjacent the open end thereof, to receive the section 22 which provides a cap.

Formed in. the closed end 'of each of the sections 21 and 22 is an aperture 24, which apertures are adapted to receive the gudgeons 1.8 of the spool 17'as shown,the container, of course, being of a relative width equal to that of the spool and being of such diameter as to receive the spool together with the cigarette paper which is wound thereon. If desired, the sections 21 and 22 of the container may be provided with a longitudinally extending slot 25, through which the cigarette paper 19 may be drawn from the spool and to facilitate the opera tion of grasping the extremity of the strip,

. algae? the sections 21 and 22 may be cut away adjacent said slot as shown at 26 to permit the fingers to be more readily engaged with the strip. in thus forming the container, a surplus roll of cigarette paper may be readily carried therein without injury, and in case it is desired to use the cigarette paper direct from the container, the spool 17 may be rotated therein by drawing the free extremity of the strip 19 through the slot 25, theadjacent uninterrupted edge'of said slot pro viding a cutting surface upon which the strip may be torn transversely, to thus d'etach a single cigarette paper therefrom.v

mayreadily secure the same in such condition that they may be carried about on the person. 7

In Fig. 6 of the drawings, 1 have shown a modified form of tube wherein the closed end of each of the sections 21 and 22'is provided with a longitudinally extending socket 27, the metal forming the ends of the sections being preferably struck outwardly as shown, to provide sa1d sockets, which are adapted to receive the gudgeons 18 of the V spool 17. The tube shown in this modification is otherwise constructed in accordance with the tube shown in the preferred form, being provided with the longitudinally extending slot 25,which is cutaway as shown at 26 in Fig. 5 of the drawings, the said slot and cutaway portion not being illustrated in the sectional view shown in Fig. 6. Attention is now called to the fact that the spool 17 upon which the cigarette paper is wound may, together with the container therefor, be mounted upon the brackets 13 within the cover of the box, and the paper. withdrawn directly from the container. Obviously, this is an advantageous arrangement since it is not absolutely necessary to remove the carton from the spool of cigarette paper when a surplus roll is inserted within the tobaccobox, and said carton when thus allowed to remain upon the spool will protect the paper when in actual use. It is also intended thatthe form of tube shown in Fig. 60f the drawings, shall be moimted upon the brackets 13 in like manner if desired, the apertures formed in 4 said brackets being of such diameter as to receive the sockets 27 of said tube, and thus as in the preferred form of tube shown, the tubeshown inthis modification may or may not, be mounted within the box in accordance with desire. In both forms of the tube sh own,.it will be observed that the tube when operatively arranged within the cover of the box is provided with gudgeons adapted to support the tube.

In Fig. 7 of the drawings, I have illustrated a slight modification of the invention wherein the cover 12 of the tobacco boX is provided with a longitudinally extending slot 28 through which the strip 19 may be withdrawn as it is used, the cover also being preferably cut away upon one side of said slot as shown at 29, to facilitate the engagement of the fingers with the strip, and it is to be noted that in thus forming the slot 28, as above pointed out, with reference to the slot 25 formed in the container, that the uninterrupted straight edge thereof provides a cutting surface upon which the strip 19 may be severed to detach a single cigarette paper therefrom. In this form of the invention, the brackets 13 are arranged within the cover 11 in the same manner as above described with reference to the preferred form of the invention, and it is to be observed that the arms 15 of said brackets are of a length substantially equal to the length of the flange 12 of the cover so that said flange will serve to not only protect said brackets from accidental injury but will also protect the spool 17 and the strip 19.

It will therefore, be seen that I provide a very simple and efficient construction for the purpose set forth which may be readily used in connection with any conventional form of tobacco box, and wherein the cigarette papers are so supported within the boX as to be readily accessible for use upon the opening thereof. It will further be seen that I provide a very desirable form of container in which surplus rolls of cigarette papers may be carried about upon the person, and wherein, the cigarette paper may or may not be used directly from the container without reference to the box, as desired.

In Fig. 8 of the drawings, I have illustrated a further modified form of my invention wherein the metal of the cover 11 is cut away to provide tongues 30 which, when it is desired to mount the spool 17 Copies of this patent may be obtained for within the cover, may be bent inwardly to extend at right angles thereto, the said tongues being apertured adjacent the free extremities thereof to receive the gudgeons of the spool. Obviously this is a very simple construction and may be employed with equally eflicient results in preference to the use of the brackets 13, as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a receptacle having an open top and including a lid adapted to close the open end of the receptacle, of a roll of paper supported upon the lid and having its free end depending within the receptacle when the lid is closed, the roll of paper when the lid is opened being movable with the lid to expose the free end of the paper.

2. The combination with a receptacle having an open top and including a lid adapted to close the open end of the receptacle, of brackets mounted upon the lid, a spool carried by said brackets, and a roll of paper rotatably supported by the spool and having its free end depending within the receptacle when the lid is closed, said roll of paper when the lid is opened being movable with the lid to expose the free end of the paper.

3. The combination with a receptacle having an open top and including a flanged lid adapted to close the open end of the receptacle with the flange engaging the wall of the receptacle, of a roll of paper supported upon the lid and having its free end depending within the receptacle when the lip is closed, said roll of paper when the lid is opened being movable with the lid to expose the free end of the paper with the said flange adapted to provide a cutting element therefor.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BERTRAM A. ROSE. [1,. s.]

Witnesses:

ENE. WEAVER, J. T. SANDERS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

